Software Developer/ Engineer/ Architect

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Job Description:

Do you have an obsession for automation and a dream to work with a highly skilled peer group? If so, our team would like to talk with you about a Senior Quality Engineer role on one of our Dublin based scrum teams within our Fidelity Capital Markets team.

The Purpose of Your Role

You will perform the role of a Senior Software Quality Engineer on one of our scrum teams. You will be responsible for ensuring that our teams deliver a high-quality product to our customers.

You deliver Value to Fidelity by:

  • Gaining an understanding of the high-level component makeup of the Product.
  • Working with our Scrum Master & Product Owner to understand release dates and objectives for the product.
  • Analysing Acceptance Criteria to understand the full picture of the business value being delivered.
  • Identifying potential gaps in Acceptance Criteria and working with Product Owner & Systems Analysts to update criteria accordingly.
  • Actively participate in planning and the other agile ceremonies for the team.
  • Defining test data requirements.
  • Writing automated / manual test cases to encompass the Acceptance Criteria in a User Story.
  • Logging defects detected by your test case and co-ordinating prioritization with your Product Owner.
  • Facilitating reviews of Test Cases with your scrum team to ensure that all paths are covered by your tests.
  • Performing smoke tests on environments following deployments.
  • Aggregating appropriate automated test scripts to be executed as part of the Test Set for a release.
  • Calling out test environment stability issues and outages.
  • A BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent.
  • 5 years of related experience, ideally within a technology environment.
  • Experience with technologies to implement Test Automation such as
    • Cucumber, Cypress, Java, Selenium, Serenity
  • Experience with Web Services testing such as
    • Rest Assured, SOATest, SOAPUI, POSTMAN, SWAGGER, Service Virtualization
  • Familiar with SQL or similar database query technologies.
  • Understanding of all aspects of the Testing Pyramid – Unit Testing, Component Testing, Integration Testing, Functional Testing and Manual Testing.
  • Knowledge of Jenkins or other continuous integration systems.
  • Adept at delivering in an Agile environment.

 The Skills you bring

  • Natural ability to nurture strong transparent and trusting relationships with Partners.
  • Demonstrated experience at building strong relationships.
  • Experience of championing innovative QA ideas.
  • Ability to influence and champion ideas across management levels and diverse groups.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Collaborate and communicate openly and effectively with team mates.
  • Effective at traversing the gap across distributed teams.
  • Dynamic ‘can do’ attitude with a strong appetite to make things happen.

Benefits Developed for You

From the little things that make every day better to those big-picture, life-changing tools. That’s exactly what you’ll get at Fidelity. We have an amazing package of benefits and programs designed to help you thrive in Ireland – both in and outside of work.

Retirement Savings

  • 100% company-paid pension
  • Ranging 5-24% based on age/service

Healthcare

  • 100% company-paid healthcare
  • Includes coverage for you, your spouse/partner and eligible dependents

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Our employee-run networks are at the heart of who we are. They span a wide range of distinct and vibrant areas of interest — each one grounded in mutual respect, driven by knowledge sharing, and open to all associates – empowering everyone to bring their whole selves to work.

  • Asian Employee Resource Group
  • Aspire – Latinx and Black Fidelity Associates
  • Fidelity Pride (LGBTQ+)
  • Women’s Leadership Group
  • Fidelity Enable – Building Inclusive Work Environments
  • Women in Technology Special Interest Group
  • Raise – Working Parents & Caregivers

Flexible Schedules

  • Provides options to meet changing work-life needs.
  • Part-time opportunities.
  • Remote work options.
  • Compressed working week.

Referral Program

  • Earn a bonus for helping to bring top talent to Fidelity Ireland.